Real fun show. It's about bringing back some old songs and their original performers... then some current producers and artists remix and cover them for an audience of people divided into four groups: Teens, twentysomethings, thirtysomethings and fortysomethings. Yoo Jae-Suk (Running Man, half of Korean tv) and You Hee-Yeol (Sketchbook etc) both have teams that compete against each other and the audience votes for their fave new performance in the end.

There's a lot of non-IOI stuff in this 1h30min show, but it has some great moments with the girls as well. Lots of good reactions for example. And Yoo Jae-Suk is a huge Produce101/IOI fanboy. It's just fun watching him react to the girls, and Hee-Yeol getting all embarrassed for him haha.

And the final performance of the girls is great, of course. First stage, aced.

M!Countdown teaser... Thursday, May 5th. The only other Music Show scheduled for now is The Show on the 10th. No matter, there's tons of variety stuff at least, and that's actually way more important for exposure.

The girls will have a showcase on the same day as well... Thursday, May 5th, 4pm KST. It'll be broadcasted live on 1theK youtube channel. \o/

Damn, why can't that album intro track be a full song? None of the new songs are very good here. Dream Girls is pretty generic and kind of all over the place... it has some good parts but other parts then ruin those parts and the end result is pretty underwhelming. The rest of the songs are really not my style, although Doo Wap sounds aight (others might enjoy them more though).

YMC is sitting on this goldmine and this is what they do with it... sad. (Famous Bro who did the title track is a YMC house producer... I really doubt the girls had that many options if they even really got to choose from a bunch of tracks to debut with...) Also everything from simple website design to teasers and social media presence, YMC has done a horrible job. I'll cut them a little slack because of the insane time constraints, but that doesn't excuse them of everything.

But hey, the visuals are on point at least. (Actually, the more I watch the MV, the more I like the song. This is that "kpop effect", and I really like all of these girls haha...)

Now... let's get more variety appearances.

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Damn, it's hopeless. After a good dozen viewings, I'm into it already. This is fine.

Whew, lots of stuff today. At one point, The girls were on three shows at the same time... and I tried to watch all of them.

SNL Korea was perfect. The writers utilized pretty much everything the girls were famous for, their memorable produce 101 moments and unique personality traits to make the skits. We got Sohye showing off her acting chops and going completely insane, Old man Sejeong, Switch Yoojung, Ending girl Chaeyeon, and so on. Love the attention to detail.

My favorite skit was easily the "3 minute little sister" skit where this dude basically gets these kits that create little sisters for him, and of course they're modeled after our girls. Seems ideal, but naturally it goes horribly wrong haha. Just glorious.

After SNL Korea there was Knowing Brothers, and it was pretty damn hilarious. It was basically Produce 101 all over again with some new "girls" added to the mix. Then there were dance battles, pillow fights and even dance performances in the end. Good stuff. And uh...

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There was also Battle Trip with the girls as judges/audience(?) but I concentrated on Knowing Bros to preserve my sanity.

Also first subunit members are gonna be announced later this week. Fingers crossed for Chae Yeon and Se Jong

Chae has promotions with Dia so I find that highly unlikely. Also Nayoung and Jieqiong are supposed to do a concert or stuff with Pledis Girlz, so maybe they're out too.

The most probable ones are Somi, Chungha, Sohye and Yeonjung since there hasn't been any rumours/news about their activities. Since there's nothing concrete about Jellyfish/Fantagio girls though, all of them remain possible. Sejeong and/or Yoojung will surely be there though, I would think.

The only other reason for Sejeong being out of this unit (outside Jellyfish doing something) is that her popularity is large enough to sustain solo activities. She could just keep doing Welcome Show and random variety for the whole year at this point if she wanted, I think.